Posted on 02/27/2020 7:54:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Could the coronavirus be the magic bullet to kill off the Trump presidency? Desperate Democrats certainly hope so; they imagine the spreading disease will knock confidence and our robust economy for a loop, undermining President Trump’s best argument for reelection.
Who can be surprised? The Democratic primary season has launched Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the aging socialist from Vermont, to a position where he is likely to lead the party in a chorus of "The Internationale" while leaping off a cliff in November. Toppling the economy could save them from political oblivion.
Nonetheless, even after three years of hateful and harmful “resistance,” this is a new low for Democrats.
Even before a single case of the virus erupted organically in our country (as one now apparently has in California), and even as the administration had acted preemptively and effectively to keep virus carriers out of our country, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and others were eager to stoke fear and blame Donald Trump.
Pelosi accused the Trump administration of devaluing “Americans’ health security by ransacking funding from other vital public health needs.”
That was in response to the White House attempting to reposition already-approved funds in order to prevent the spread of the virus. Why would the Trump administration do that? Because they fully anticipated that Democrats in the House would play politics with any Trump budget request – even one attempting to save lives. And they were right.
Pelosi’s criticisms on this topic are tough to swallow. The House speaker, after all, represents a state where thousands of people live on filthy streets, leading to severe outbreaks of typhoid and bubonic plague, which was known as "Black Death" during the Dark Ages...
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AIDS was re-framed as a disease caused by Ronald Reagan.
For better or worse, luck and timing are big factors in politics.
Fingers crossed.
Unless they have a vaccine these old democrats better be careful what they wish for.
My Democrat neighbor said the party is hoping at least a million US people die so they can blame Trump.
ChiCommunists are the cause of Coronavirus.
Soviet Sanders fault.
No doubt a couple of my former neighbors think the same.
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